Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

BRANDARD, ROBERT. _b._ Birmingham 1805; landscape engraver in London 1826 to death; engraved plates for Turner’s _England_ and _Rivers of England_ and other books, also for the _Art Journal_; produced some etchings from his own designs, one series of which was published by the Art Union 1864; painted both in oils and water-colours; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A., 21 at British Institution and 32 at Suffolk st. gallery 1831–58. _d._ Campden hill, Kensington, London 7 Jany. 1862. BRANDE, EVERARD AUGUSTUS (_eld. son of Augustus Everard Brande of Arlington st. London, apothecary to George iii._) _b._ Arlington st. 1776; ed. at Westminster sch.; studied at St. George’s hospital 1795; apothecary to George iii and Queen Charlotte 1801; apothecary to William iv and Queen Adelaide 1830–33 when he retired from practice; a member of first Court of Examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1815; presented to College of Phys. valuable collection of Materia Medica made by Dr. Burgess. _d._ Sulhamstead house, Turnham-Green, London 11 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 312 (1869). BRANDE, GEORGE WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). Chief clerk of the Treasury many years. _d._ Exeter 18 June 1854 aged 69. BRANDE, WILLIAM THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Arlington st. 11 Jany. or Feb. 1788; ed. at Westminster; began lecturing on chemistry 1808; F.R.S. 13 April 1809, Copley medallist 1813, one of secretaries 1816–26; professor of chemistry to Apothecaries company 4 Nov. 1812 and professor of materia medica 1813, master of the Company 1851; professor of chemistry at Royal Institution May 1813 to 1854; superintendent of die department of Mint 1825 and of coining department 1854; edited with M. Faraday _Quarterly journal of science and arts_ 1816–36; author of _Outlines of geology_ 1817, _2 ed._ 1829; _A manual of chemistry_ 1819, _6 ed. 2 vols._ 1848; _A manual of pharmacy_ 1825, _3 ed._ 1833; edited _A dictionary of science literature and art_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1853. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 11 Feb. 1866. _Proc. of Royal Society xvi_, 2–6 (1868); _S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. 1_ (1853), _portrait_. BRANDLING, JOHN JAMES. Second lieut. R.A. 19 March 1839; lieut. col. 8 March 1860 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Woodsley house, Leeds 16 April 1860 aged 39. BRANDON, JOHN RAPHAEL. _b._ 1817; articled to W. Parkinson, architect 1836; practised at Beaufort buildings, Strand, London with his brother Joshua Arthur Brandon 1841–7 when the latter died; joint architect with Robert Ritchie of Catholic Apostolic church, Gordon sq. London, opened 1 Jany. 1854; architect of St. Peter’s church, Great Windmill st. Piccadilly 1861; one of the 11 architects who competed for Royal Courts of Justice, London 1867; author with his brother of _Analysis of Gothick architecture 2 vols._ 1847; _Views of English ecclesiastical structures_ 1848, _new ed. 2 vols._ 1858; _Open timber roofs of the middle ages_ 1849; _Railways and the Public_ 1868, _8 ed._ 1871; shot himself at his chambers 17 Clement’s Inn, Strand, London 8 Oct. 1877. BRANDRETH, THOMAS ALSTON. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1797; colonel 23 Nov. 1841 to death; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ Chudleigh, Devon 24 Sep. 1851 aged 72. BRANDRETH, THOMAS SHAW (_2 son of Joseph Brandreth M.D. of Liverpool, physician 1746–1815_). _b._ 24 July 1788; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., 2 wrangler, 2 Smith’s prizeman and chancellor’s medallist 1810, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of his college 1811; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; revising barrister for Liverpool, Bolton and other towns in Lancashire many years; invented a logometer or ten-foot gunter, a friction wheel, and a double-check clock escapement, all of which he patented; invented a machine in which the weight of a horse was utilised on a moving platform, this invention was used where steam power proved too expensive as in Lombardy and in some parts of the United States where it is still employed; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; author of _Homer’s Iliad with notes 2 vols._ 1841 in which the Digamma was restored throughout for sake of the metre; _A dissertation on the metre of Homer_ 1844; _Homer’s Iliad_, _translated 2 vols._ 1846. _d._ The Steyne, Worthing 27 May 1873. BRANDT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (_eld. son of Rev. Francis Brandt R. of Gawsworth Cheshire who d. 1870_). _b._ Gawsworth rectory 1819; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch.; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 30 April 1847; leader of Chester and Knutsford sessions; reported for the _Times_ in Court of Common Pleas; contributed to _Bells Life in London_; author of _Habet, a short treatise on the law of the land as it effects pugilism_ 1857; _Fur and feathers_ 1859; _Frank Marland’s Manuscripts_ 1859; _Games, gaming and gamester’s law_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1873. _d._ 8 Fig tree court, Temple London 6 Dec. 1874. BRANDT, ROBERT. Barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; went northern circuit; commissioner in Bankruptcy for Manchester; judge of Bury Court of Requests; judge of Manchester county court March 1847 to death. _d._ Pendleton near Manchester 15 April 1862. _Law Times xxxvii_, 321 (1862). BRANKS, REV. WILLIAM. Minister of parish of Torpichen; published anonymously _Heaven our Home_ 1861, _new ed._ 1864, sale of which reached considerably over 100,000 copies; _Zion’s King_ 1859; preserved anonymous character of his works to the last. _d._ Torpichen 18 Feb. 1879. BRANSON, WILLIAM SCHOLES. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool 1847 or before; manager of Adelphi theatre Liverpool; author of many plays. _d._ Fairfield, Liverpool Jany. 1884 aged 74. BRANT, JAMES. Vice consul at Trebizond 31 March 1830; consul at Erzeroom 27 April 1836 and at Damascus Sep. 1856 to 2 Nov. 1860 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 31 Oct. 1860. _d._ Cliftonville, Brighton 24 Nov. 1861. BRANT, REV. WILLIAM HOLT. Consular chaplain at St. Michael’s in the Azores 11 Nov. 1834 to 25 April 1865. _d._ Lisbon 20 April 1867 aged 90. BRANWHITE, CHARLES (_son of Nathan Branwhite of Bristol, miniature painter_). _b._ Bristol 1817; landscape painter especially of frost scenes; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A., 25 at British Institution and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–57. _d._ Bramford house, Westfield park, Redland, Bristol 15 Feb. 1880. _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 285 (1880), _portrait_. BRASIER, JAMES. Entered navy 3 Dec. 1799; captain 10 Jany. 1837; V.A. on h.p. 14 Nov. 1863. _d._ Bradney near Bridgnorth 28 July 1864 aged 80. BRASSEY, THOMAS (_son of John Brassey of Buerton, Aldford, Cheshire, farmer_). _b._ Buerton 7 Nov. 1805; land surveyor at Birkenhead 1826; railway contractor in London 1836; made line from Paris to Rouen 1841–3 and from Rouen to Havre 1843–5; contractor for Great Northern railway 1847–51, railways in Italy 1850–3, Grand Trunk railway of Canada 1852–9 and railways in Australia 1859–63; established with E. T. Betts and M. Peto Canada works at Birkenhead 1853. _d._ Hastings 8 Dec. 1870. _Life by Arthur Helps_ 1872, _portrait_; _J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke_ (1862) 145–54; _Work and wages practically illustrated_, _by T. Brassey, M.P. 1872_. NOTE.—He laid out £78,000,000 of other people’s money and upon that outlay retained £2,500,000 being as nearly as possible three per cent.; he had in his employ at one time upwards of 30,000 men on railways in Europe; his will was proved in London 7 Feb. 1871, personalty being sworn under £3,200,000. BRAVO, CHARLES DELAUNEY TURNER (_only son of Charles Turner of the Isle of Jersey_). _b._ 39 Upper Charlotte st. Tottenham Court road, London 30 Nov. 1845; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Ox., admitted gentleman commoner 16 Jany. 1864, B.A. 1866, M.A. 1868; barrister M.T. 30 April 1870, went Home circuit; changed his name to Bravo 1868 or 1869. (_m._ 7 Dec. 1875 Florence eld. dau. of Robert Campbell of Buscot park near Reading, she was _b._ 5 Sep. 1845, _m._ (1) 21 Sep. 1864 Alexander Lewis Ricardo, Ensign Grenadier Guards (who _d._ 19 April 1871), she _d._ at Lumps villa Southsea 17 Sep. 1878 and was _bur._ at Farringdon, Berkshire 21 Sep.) C. D. T. Bravo _d._ suddenly and mysteriously from taking tartar emetic at The Priory Bedford hill road, Balham Surrey 21 April 1876. _bur._ Lower Norwood cemetery 1 May. _The Balham mystery or the Bravo poisoning case 7 numbers 56 pages_ (1876), _portraits_. NOTE.—There was a coroner’s inquest held at which no conclusion was arrived at as to how the poison was administered, a renewed inquest was opened by the Coroner for East Surrey 11 July 1876 which lasted till 11 Aug. when the coroner’s jury returned the following verdict, “We find that the deceased did not commit suicide, but that he was wilfully murdered by the administration of tartar emetic, but there is not sufficient evidence to fix the guilt upon any person or persons.” In consequence of this decision the Government offered a reward of £250 for information leading to the conviction of the murderer, but nothing more was ever found out. BRAY, ANNA ELIZA (_only dau. of John Kemp of the Mint, London, bullion porter 1748–1823_). _b._ St. Mary Newington, Surrey 25 Dec. 1790; author of _Traditions, legends, superstitions and sketches of Devonshire, the Tamar and the Tavy 3 vols._ 1838; _Trelawnie of Trelawne or the prophecy 3 vols., 2 ed._ 1845; _Henry de Pomeroy or the eve of St. John 3 vols._ 1842, _new ed._ 1846; _Handel, his life personal and professional_ 1857; _Joan of Arc_ 1874. (_m._ (1) Feb. 1818 Charles Alfred Stothard, historical draughtsman who _d._ 28 May 1821, _m._ (2) 1822 Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray, V. of Tavistock who _d._ 1857). She _d._ 40 Brompton Crescent, London 21 Jany. 1883. _Mrs. Bray’s Autobiography_ 1844, _portrait_; _Library Chronicle i_, 126–9 (1884); _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 197 (1883), _portrait_. BRAY, CHARLES (_son of Mr. Bray of Coventry, ribbon manufacturer who d. 1835_). _b._ Coventry 31 Jany. 1811; ribbon manufacturer at Coventry 1835–56; helped to establish Coventry Labourers’ and Artisans’ Society 1843 which developed into a co-operative society of which he was president; started a working man’s club 1845; purchased _The Coventry Herald and Observer_ 1846 which he sold to J. M. Scott 1874; author of _Education of the feelings_ 1838, _4 ed._ 1872; _Philosophy of necessity 2 vols._ 1841, _2 ed._ 1863; _Outlines of social systems and communities_ 1844; _A manual of anthropology_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1883; _Psychological and ethical definitions on a physiological basis_ 1879 and a number of pamphlets. _d._ 5 Oct. 1884. _C. Bray’s Phases of opinion and experience during a long life_ (1884), _portrait_; _George Eliot’s Life, by J. W. Cross_ 1885. BRAY, REV. EDWARD ATKYNS (_only son of Edward Bray of Tavistock, solicitor_). _b._ the Abbey house, Tavistock 18 Dec. 1778; a student at M.T. 1801, barrister M.T. 1806; ordained by bishop of Norwich about 1811; entered at Trin. coll. Cam. 1812, B.D. 1822; V. of Tavistock 1812 to death; P.C. of Brent Tor, Devon 1812 to death; author of _Sermons from the works of the most eminent divines_ 1818; _Discourses from tracts and treatises of eminent divines_ 1821; _Discourses on Protestantism_ 1829; _Poetical remains 2 vols._ 1859. _d._ Tavistock 17 July 1857. _Poetical remains of the late E. A. Bray i_, _pp. ix-lii_, (1859), _portrait_. BRAY, EDWARD WILLIAM. Ensign 67 Foot 12 Jany. 1805; major 39 Foot 9 Nov. 1841 to 7 Aug. 1846 when he retired on full pay; C.B. 2 May